Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 1. Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 2. • Digital technology has been used for the entire process of producing my magazine. The first step was to research, I had to research the music industry, indie mass audiences, indie magazine conventions and magazine layouts on a computer, this was fairly straight forward. I wrote my article for the double page spread on Microsoft at home on my computer, I then used a USB to transfer that article on to the college computer.
- 3. • I had to use a Nikon SLR to take all of the photos that I used, then I had to upload them all on to the computer by using a memory card reader; Using an SLR allowed me to take high quality, professional photographs. The most time consuming and difficult process was creating the magazine. I had to use Photoshop for the entire creation of my magazine. To simply summarise my Photoshop process; I uploaded photos, edited the photos, inserted different texts, added shapes, used design layouts and deleted them after placing my own products on top of the blocks.
- 4. • I am thankful that Photoshop exists, however, I found it very frustrating on many occasions as it doesn’t always work according to plan. The whole creation task uses technological convergence, as I am able to make the entire magazine on a computer, whereas in history magazines were made by a much longer process involving people, not computer devices. After saving my designs as J-Pegs, I posted them in a Facebook group for a few of my friends to review my work. The entirety of my work is due to computers which I used to do all of that work, which is an amazing example of technological convergence.